[Survey of property in Tarn].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Fiefs--France.

Fiefs.

Land tenure--France--History.

Land tenure.

France.

History.

Tarn (France).

Albi (France).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

land surveys

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Francis Roux-Devillas (Paris), 1962.

Physical Description:

60 leaves : paper ; 320 x 220-235 mm bound to 330 x 230-270 mm + 3 notes

Production:

[Tarn], 1309.

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

A survey of property of the fief Castelnau-de-Lévis, in Tarn, France. Concerns land-holdings of the lords of this region, which include Ste. Croix, St. Sernin, La Bastide, Castelnau-de-Lévis (also known as Castelnau-de-Bonafous), near Albi. Organized by location, and containing names of tenants along with rents. Also includes many mentions of vineyards. Contains three notes, one of which is an 18th-century French description of the manuscript. The other notes are written in two different near-contemporary hands, one containing similar information about rents, the other containing a mostly illegible note. Text of a charter dated 1343, very faded, added at end of manuscript (f. lviiii verso).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 60; [i], i-lviiii; contemporary foliation in roman numerals in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a cursive hand.

Decoration: Date has small ink details surrounding each letter (f. [i] recto).

Binding: 14th-century vellum document (partial, missing text) as wrapper (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in Tarn, France, in 1309 (f. 1r).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 41 (Ms. Latin 178).

Described in Greslé-Bouignol, Maurice. "Les Chartrier des Seigneurs de Graulhet-Castelnau-de-Lévis aux Archives du Tarn." Annales du Midi. Vol. 72 (Toulouse: E. Privat, 1889), p. 89-98.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1285.

OCLC:

289264653

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